Improvement in faucets



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

' RoRERT MURRAY,v 0E BOSTON, AssIeNoRtro nirMsELE AND JAMES W. TUETS, or MEDEoRD, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT'IN FAueETs.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 45.949, dated January 17,1865.

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ROBERT MURRAY, a resident of Boston, in the county of Sui'olk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Liquor-Faucets; and il dohereby declare the same to be fully described in the following ,specification and represented "in the accompanying drawings, of whichl Figure l denotes a side v1ew,'Fi g.-2 a 1on-V gitudinal section,- and Fig. 3 -a transverse section, of a faucet as provided withmy said invention. Fig. 4 is an end view of the recessed journal of its valve-shaft.

In this faucet, Ais the valve-case, which is a cylindrical box connected with an. eductientube, B, which at its connection with the box has abearing, b, fertile reception of the inner end of the valve-shaft c, such shaft being in other respects supported by a stufngbox, d, applied tothe cover or cap e of the valve-case. The valve c has its stem f arranged at a right angle to the axis of the valve-shaft, and slides freely Within the shaft and against a spring, g, arranged Within a chamber, h, made trans versely in the shaft. '.lhe valve operates so jas to cover or uncover a dischargingopening,

i, made through the rim .ofthe valve-case, such valve being forced towardand against the interior curvedsurfaceof the rim by means of the spring g. The inner end ofthe valve-shaft is so recessed or chambered, as shown at Jr, as

to open communication between the inductiontube and the valveease when the inner journal of the valve-shaft is in place it its bearing b. Under these circumstances a fluid flowing through the induction-tube can pass through the journal and into the valvecase, froml whence it Will bz,- discharged through the opening i, provided the latter be uncovered by the valve. The valve-shai't-is furnished with a lever, l, for turning it, and within the case there maybe suitable stops for determiuing the extent of movement of the valve, Whetherto cover or uncover the discharginghole.

The construction of the valve-shaft with an inner journal recessed or channeled as described-that is, so that the fluid may pass through the journal-enables thevalvenotonly to be better supported than it would be by one journal alone, but also insures accuracy of movement of the valve, and little or no liability of leakage therefrom.

I elaim'- l The improved faucet, having its valve-shaft arranged in the prolongation of the axis of its induction-tube and pivoted in or at the'inner end' thereof, and 'made with its inner journal so channeled as to enable a duid to pass into and through it While passing from the induction-tube into the valve-ease, the faucet being in other respects as specified.

vROBERT MURRAY. 

